1168 Brandia

1168 Brandia
Discovery
Discovered by	E. Delporte
Discovery site	Uccle Obs.
Discovery date	25 August 1930
Designations
MPC designation	(1168) Brandia
Named after	Eugène Brand; (Belgian mathematician)
Alternative designations	1930 QA
Minor planet category	main-belt · (middle); Eunomia
Orbital characteristics
	Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
	Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	82.70 yr (30,208 days)
Aphelion	3.1088 AU
Perihelion	1.9931 AU
Semi-major axis	2.5510 AU
Eccentricity	0.2187
Orbital period (sidereal)	4.07 yr (1,488 days)
Mean anomaly	120.52°
Mean motion	0° 14m 30.84s / day
Inclination	12.735°
Longitude of ascending node	218.65°
Argument of perihelion	122.91°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions	10.110±0.057 km; 10.58 km (derived); 10.61±0.7 km
Synodic rotation period	11.444 h; 11.444 h
Geometric albedo	0.1375 (derived); 0.150±0.038; 0.1505±0.0383; 0.1526±0.021
Spectral type	S; B–V = 0.860; U–B = 0.470
Absolute magnitude (H)	12.30±0.23 · 12.53 · 12.65

1168 Brandia, provisional designation 1930 QA, is a stony Eunomian asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by astronomer Eugène Delporte at Uccle Observatory in 1930, the asteroid was later named after mathematician Eugène Brand.^[2]

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